Why bother, If it’s not politically correct, they kick it out.

I agree with most of the rest of you.  This sounds like a bad, bad idea.  There’s no way my kids could benefit from a longer day or more days in school.  Quality is far more important than quantity.  Work hard, then have plenty of time left to play hard. 

Back in my school days, I was a straight-A student, well-behaved, and enthusiastic. I showed up in the morning well-rested and ready to learn. But I can still remember how torturous those last couple hours were. I almost always performed worst in the subjects that were taught in the late afternoon.  Even in a best-case-scenario situation, kids can only take so much at one time. 

The heart of the problem is that we don’t have enough parents supplementing the children’s education at home.  I don’t know how to fix it, but it doesn’t sound like it’s something the federal government can fix.

Longer school days will accomplish nothing more than costing those of us who actually work a great deal more.  If teachers would go back to teaching subjects and not the “tests”, our children would be much better educated.  But they won’t - after all - better test scores mean more funding and that’s much more important than the education our children are receiving.  After all, this is the same school system who decided that Science and English grammar are no longer primary subjects.

What we need is parents to be parents, discipline to be allowed at home, school & any where else your children are and to be issued by the person whose care they are in.  This would cut down on the problems in the class room & allow the teachers to actually do there jobs of teaching instead of babysitting someones little angel who causes constant problems and no one can do anything with.  I have several friends that are teachers & are good ones but the things they have to deal with (behavior, paperwork, meeting, parents with bad attitudes etc…) takes up more of their time than teaching does.  Longer school days & years will only allow parents to continue to put their responsibilities off on someone else and cause teachers & students to be less productive.  Not to mention the fact that the school systems are already broke & tax payers are already paying enough towards education.

I don’t think more school time is a bad thing. My only concern is the financial obligations that will come with the extension of school. Teachers in Alabama especially, don’t get paid enough.  So, will pay increase? Plus support personal will be needed for these extended hours. Will pay increase? Bus drivers will be asked to drive children home in the dark. Some of the roads they already have to take on the daily basis aren’t safe during the day. Drivers will be force to take these routes at night. As a right now, with the way things are financially for America and education is an important factor, I don’t think it is very logical for extended hours to begin at this time.

Whatever he can do to destroy America and worsen our lifes and our children’s lifes he is going to do it.He and Polosie is mad the public option is gone so now they want to take out on the children.

We tell our children to value an education while we don’t appreciate what we have and we waste so much. We say one thing and do another. We buy whatever we want whether we can afford it or not. We give them whatever they want. We don’t require them to be responsible. If by chance we’re one of the very few who doesn’t, boy do we catch it from the children and other parents who think we are the meanest person in the world.

take the economy back to a one wage earner family man or woman you pick and have a paretn stay home with the kids. no to longer school years and days. as many on here have correctly stated ( I believe)the kids dont have that long of an attention span. shorten the year, start afte labor day and be finishied by memorial day. c;ose the schools, turn the utilities off during the hottest part of the summer. go pretty much straight through to minimize your utiliy (Power etc) days. cut out all the 1/2 days and holidays, a few at christmas and thanksgiving. you wuold save a lot of money. and turn parenting back over to the parents. the schools cant be babysitters anymore. simplify your lives, cut down on extravagance in the public education. its about teaching children math and reading, its not a substitute parenting situation, nor is it babysitting.

I lived in Asia for a while and everything is valued more there. We are considered the most wasteful country in the world. Go figure Huh.

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